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(...) Hi All I have to put my 20 cents worth in here as I have built the 6 wide NR 75 with many thanks to Tim for his help with prototyping issues and use of his instructions. 8 wide looks awfull but that is only my opinion far too out of scale no (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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This is a great model. I may build it if I can find the parts: I have a suggestion. Put your name in the file as the author. If I build this I would want to be able to tell someone who designed the engine. I would probably forget whose model it is (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: The Hobby Show.
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(...) I am - but it'll be mostly (studless) Technic stuff from me, as my Orion 7 bus is still in progress. Keith (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) )
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(...) Looks quite good, although it's always hard to judge a model purely on a POVRAY/LDRAW picture (ie get off your lazy *&^ and start building ;) ) About height, the model indeed looks a bit "stretched" although I'm not familiar with the original. (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: Truckfest/Scotfest
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A reminder that Trucksest/Scotfest takes place on Saturday 29th October. Everybody is invited, you don't have to be a member of Brickish. David (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) )
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(...) If you said 6-wide represents an 8ft wide coach body, a minifig is 41mm / 48mm x 8ft = 6'10" tall and 16mm / 48mm x 8ft = 2'8" wide at the waist (standard minifig with hair but no rucksack). If 6-wide represents a 10ft wide body for American (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | En delsmmanfattning från Stockholm
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Hej allihopa. Det är i skrivandets stund 9 personer som anmält inresse och tänker komma. Följande områden folk ville ha med är: 3 st LRW 3 st microborg (Jag har ingen standard för detta) 2 st blindbygge 2 st Köp/byt/sälj 1 st stafettbygge 1 st (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) )
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(...) Nice work Swami and better late than never :P. I don't know what happened to the logo but something went wrong... As for minifigs, everyone knows they are tall and broad, not short. That's why trains should be six-wide. Sheesh!!! Tim (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) )
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(...) Thank you Community Member Richie Dulin for spotlighting my post! Your warm services to the embracing community are much appreciated, as always. (...) Alas, CM Richie my greatest apologies to you if you find the renders below community (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) )
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(...) Excellent work! Spotlighted. Thanks for sharing. The Ghan logos do seem to have lost something in the rendering - have you built in real life? Cheers Richie Dulin (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: New Harry Potter Sets spotted
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(...) Same pricing also spotted at Big-W mandurah and spearwood. (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | The Hobby Show.
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Hi Guys, Just wondering who is comming to the hobby show and if any one is planing on bringing any moonbase items or ships? Jeff VW (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | NR-75 - The Ghan (The way it should have been done ;-) )
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As most of you know, it was my end of the 24 Hour Build Challenge deal to build a Ghan in 8 wide. So here it is: (URL) Gallery after mod: (URL) (Ignore the Playboy bunny on the side. It's a trick of the light and Tim R0x0r for teh renderz.) I'm (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX) !
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| | Re: SWELug8
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Hej! Som sagt så tänker jag komma på SWElug 8 29-30 oktober och om jag ännu inte har anmält mig så gör jag det nu. Då jag tänker åka tåg börjar det bli dags att boka biljetter. Undrar därför följande: När under lördagen har ni som anmält er tänkt (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Pictures of Trial of TCLTC Sleeper Scheme with Wider Track Bed
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(...) A couple of pictures of my evaluation of a wider TCLTC-style scheme, prior to my experiments with sleeper colours and mosaic shading: (URL) used this piece to test stuff like clearances for BBB wheeled locos, feasibility of a wider track bed, (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build)
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| | Pictures of New technique: Cascaded Trinary Pneumatics (aka mid-stop)
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In lugnet.technic, Mark Bellis wrote: (SNIP) (...) Here are the pictures (at last!) They show the control stage, cascade stage and steering stage of Trinary Mid-Stop pneumatic logic. Start in the centre position: (URL) to the left: (URL) back to the (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | TexLUG 10/9/05 meeting notes
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All, Here's a recap of last Sunday's TexLUG meeting in Austin. Our building theme was castle; we also put up a Great Ball Contraption and held a robotic sumo contest. The meeting was well-attended, despite the last-minute change of venue from (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Omicron Spaceport Moonbase
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This is the Spaceport I built for the 2005 NW Brickcon. (URL) Some features: working baggage system (elevator takes it down to the tarmac, and a conveyor takes it up to the baggage claim are) monorail connection it was made to connect with my gray (...) (19 years ago, 14-Oct-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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| | Roasting Joe Vig
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OK - this isn't really a vignette, but it DOES feature Joe Vig. This was a module made for the Haunted Mansion at the 2005 NW BrickCon. It is pretty self-explanatory; Joe-Vig, as a symbol of all that is naive about the mini-fig world is being (...) (19 years ago, 14-Oct-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.us.wa.sea, lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | New Cattledogs
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The new Catalogues are in stores. New additions from this years earlier release are Vikings, Dino Attack, Duplo Trains and Harry Potter stuff. All the sets we already know about. HobbyCo wanted $1.95 again and with no new technic to show me, i gave (...) (19 years ago, 14-Oct-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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